The House Divided: Sunni, Shia And The Making Of The Middle East'A masterly engagement with the most delicate and important of subjects filled with gentle empathy, learning and rare balance' Rory Stewart 'Rogerson is an original eloquent and always fascinating' William Dalrymple Recommended on The Rest is Politics and Empire At the heart of the Middle East, with its regional conflicts and proxy wars, is a 1400 year old schism between Sunni and Shia. To understand this divide and its modern resonances, we need to

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The world is a bewildering place and we're ill-equipped to deal with it

extract what she can and try to make his life sound interesting

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